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Science 23 May 1986:
Vol. 232. no. 4753, pp. 993 - 995
DOI: 10.1126/science.232.4753.993
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Hyperphoretic Dispersal of a Pyxidiophora Anamorph

MEREDITH BLACKWELL 1, J. ROBERT BRIDGES 2, JOHN C. MOSER 2, and THELMA J. PERRY 2

1 Department of Botany, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
2 Southern Forest Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pineville, LA 71360.

It has been suggested that Thaxteriola species and other minute, nonmycelial fungi associated with arthropods have phylogenetic relationships with the Laboulbeniales. However, direct development of the thallus of Thaxteriola from an ascospore of Pyxidiophora has now been discovered. Thaxteriola is specialized for dispersal by mites carried on pine bark beetles; other fungi dispersed by arthropods in this symbiotic assemblage rely primarily on arthropod specializations.

Submitted on December 20, 1985
Accepted on February 25, 1986


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